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Pencil Envy: Good Design is Sustainable Design
The designers have done it again – proving once again that computing has largely missed the boat on what it means to be a sustainable discipline (see earlier design accord and design manifesto). Here’s the opening line from the Queensland Design Strategy 2020: Good design is sustainable design. This definition comes from the British […]
And the Award for the Most Inspiring Dad goes to…
March 6, 2009
In February last year I got this email from my Dad: My BIG project is that I’m going to raise the money to build a school for 400 kids in Cambodia…I’ve got it all planned and costed and approved in Cambodia a…I’ve made a power point 50 photo presentation and big talk…with […]
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You’re not going to be measuring “ecological friendliness” just by watching the power meter
March 2, 2009
Ever had that nagging feeling that something is missing? YesterdayI wrote about Michael Healey’s The Eco-Enterprise And The Reality Of Green IT. I thought his premise that many green IT initiatives are really just ROI-based business decisions wrapped in green packaging was timely. His quote is judicious: “Virtualization isn’t about being green, and we all know it”. But I […]
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Green IT quote of year: “Virtualization isn’t about being green, and we all know it”
March 1, 2009
It’s nice to be proven right once in a while. I’ve been saying for a long time that we’re making a mistake in connecting green with short-term business benefits (see earlier posts about the lean=green fallacy 1, 2, 3). Now a report from InformationWeek by Michael Healey finds that A mere 12% of the 419 business […]
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Sustainability strategies poorly supported by operational processes
February 27, 2009
As a facilitator of wider sustainable change, computing can have a far bigger impact than its own footprint. But we’ve a long way to go. Sophie Hallstedt finds that even in companies that have adopted sustainability as core strategy, there is little evidence of the decision systems needed to enable these goals. In one chapter of […]
Computing for Sustainability 
March 8, 2009
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